| Uncovering secrets embedded in their every day lives, these two books were triggered by a chance finding of wartime documents which gave rise to questions surrounding contemporary events.
Rosemary Bailey’s book, Love and War in the French Pyrenees, offers an emotional history underlying the bitter facts of wartime in the Pyrenees and the unspoken secrets of the french Resistance.
Marc Stevens’ Escape, Evasion and Revenge reveals the unknown story of his father, the only German Jew to fight the Nazis as an RAF bomber pilot tracing his repeated captures and astounding escapes until he finally arrives in Canada, leaving his old life, and name behind him.
Rosemary Bailey studied English and Philosophy at Bristol University and worked as a journalist and travel writer, livng for several years in New York before basing herself in France. In 1997 Rosemary and her husband, Barry Miles, bought Corbiac, a ruined Romanesque monastery whch they restored - an experience recounted in Life in a Postcard. This same monastery features in Love and War in the Pyrenees as a place of refuge and escape during the Second World war.
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